Senator Lugar acknowledges the chairman in his opening statement.
01/21/2009
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In 2009 and 2010, though discussions occurred on Law of the Sea within the Obama administration, passing the Convention ...
Our influence in the Middle East significantly reduced by our inability to be able to effect things.
Americans who are involved in the oceans professionally on a daily basis... want this Convention ratified.
I would like to ask sort of the basic question we perhaps began with and that is the idea that we do have a foreign poli...